BurningbirdQuite an interesting give and take between Dan Gillmor and David Lazarus on newspaper survival, weblogs, and the usual. I wrote several comments in Dan’s post, most of which I won’t repeat here. One that’s incidental to the discussion between Gillmor and Lazarus I will repeat and that has to do with covering the local news. Dan doesn’t think […]
I wrote in comments to Dan Gillmor’s post yesterday that David Lazurus sounded frustrated and perhaps even frightened, and then today I read from Tim O’Reilly that the San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble. This follows on from ValleyWag, which has stated that the long-term publication, InfoWorld, is closing it’s doors: news I’ve been expecting ever since […]
I have not been taking many pictures. This last winter, circumstances were such that I didn’t have much opportunity. Now, I’m more of a mood to go for walks without the camera. Still, spring is pretty here, though cloudy this year. This fine fellow is a wood duck, considered the prettiest duck there is. I’ve […]
Kurt Cagle wrote an excellent essay on semantics, Some Thoughts on Semantics. He talks about the technologies associated with the building of the semantic web, and how each technology builds on the previous to provide greater degrees of accuracy. RDF can be used to make assertions and ontologies can be used to ensure the accuracy and […]
WordPress has some really serious flaws in its post management. It flips posts to private, it resets categories, it returns 404 for pages that are found. If you have a post up in one window and forget and open it into another window, the auto-saving will overwrite your changes, even after the item is published. […]